In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on. - Rod Serling
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
- Rod Serling
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say. - Rod Serling
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete. - Rod Serling
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
Being like everybody is the same as being nobody. - Rod Serling
Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sy… - Rod Serling
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sy…
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace. - Rod Serling
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the… - Rod Serling
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the…
I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infreq… - Rod Serling
I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infreq…
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. - Rod Serling
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
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